A Hitlerist Party has been formed in Poland, the Yiddish daily “Najer Hajnt” reports to-day. A meeting has been held at Lodz this week, it says, attended by about 150 people, and it was decided to form a new Party, known as the National Socialist Party, whose programme is practically identical with that of the German Hitlerists.
The leaders and members of the Polish Nazi Party are mostly recruited from the old Narodowa Partja Robotnicza, two of whose leaders, Deputy Pichna and ex-Deputy Waskewicz, have placed themselves at its head.
The Narodowa Partja Robotnicza (National Workmen’s Party) was one of the Parties of the Left, and had about 20 Deputies and Senators in the old Parliaments, and one of its leaders, Jan Jankowski, was at one time Assistant Minister of Labour. Though a Labour Party, it subordinated the interests of the working-class to those of the nation and loudly proclaimed that it put the interest of the nation and the State before everything else. It combated internationalism and had no relations with the International Labour and Socialist movement.
The National Workmen’s Party had most of its supporters in Lodz and in the provinces that belonged to Germany before the new Polish Republic was constituted. It had numerous support in Silesia, Posen and Pomerania, and was organised largely on German lines.
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